NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8930, 20 December 1887, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tb Kooti bat been living at the Awahou settlement, Rotorua. Mr. Louis Samuel, eldest son of Sir Saul Samuel, and a well-known civil engir or, died, recently. The choruses in the Centennial Cantata are to be sung by nearly 2000 voices in the Sydney Exhibition Building. The Queensland Supplementary Estimates show that the receipts for the past four nontbs have inoreased by £144,000. It is announced that the Dominican Nuns contemplate at an early date continuing (the 'wilding of their convent in Dunedin. The Gear Meat Company are to be congratulated that the success of their business warrants them in deolaring a dividend of .10 per cent. The regular meeting of the Harbour Board Has been postponed from Tuesday, the 27th Inst, to Thursday the 29th inst., on account of the holidays. A copy of Angas's New Zsalanders realized £21 at auction yesterday, at Messrs. Vaile and Douglas's sale, and was purchased by the Auckland Institute. The Chriitchuroh City Council have re* fused permission to construct another tramway through the city to conneot with the New Brighton line. Two boys, named Alfred Jaggs and Thos. Healy, arrived yesterday from Giaborne, having been committed to the graining School at Kohimarama. Thrare was again a large attendance at St. Mary's Bazaar and Fancy Fair, Onehunja, last night, and each of the stallholders did a good amount of business. His Worship the Mayor and the Town Clerk yesterday paid an official visit to H.M. 8. Rapid, now in port, and were courteously reoeived by Captain Musgrare and bis officers. At the inspection parade of the No. 2 Battalion to be held this evening in the Drillshed, Mrs W. R. Waddel will present the prizes won at the reoent competition of the City Guards corps. A labourer at Crockwell, New South Wales, named Charles Woods, was bitten on the finger by a large brown snake. Woods pluckily severed the finger with an axe, and is now out of danger. A man named Hobert Smith was yesterday brought from Mahurangi by Constable Haddock as being of unsound mind, tie was accommodated with quarters in the lock-up, and will be forwarded to the Asylum this forenoon.

Mr. G. Mcßride, merchant toil or, has adopted a very good way of advertising his business. He has had a variety of Christmas cards prepared, with calendar, etc., on the back, and of coarse his name appears both on the front and back of the cards. It will be seen from advertisement that a meeting of the committee of the Lyon Memorial Fond will be held at the Drill abed on Wednesday evening. It is requested that all subscription lists not yet returned may be forwarded to the aacre-

tary. Intelligence has been received by the police from Mercury B»y that two hitches had been discovered washed ashore on Buffalo Beach. Tney are supposed to have belonged to the ketch Opotiki, which was wrecked and sunk some time ago on Centre Island, near Mercury Bay. The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending Dec. 17: Boys, 2 ; penal servitude, 41 males, 1 female; hard labour, 96 males, 36 females; default of bail, 14 male« : 4 females; received during the week, 14 males, 3 females; discharged, 19 males, 3 females; total in prison, 155 males, 4] females.